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Show SKIPPED THE ROPE TO AN EARLY GRAVE PHILADELPHIA, May 13.-Little Mamie Ma-mie Campion is dead, victim of the gratification grat-ification of a girlish ambition. Returning from school, sh eclipsed all her companions com-panions in "Jumping the rope." Three nights later she died in the agony of spinal spi-nal meningitis. Mamie Campion is the second sacrifice to the skipping-rope erase within a fortnight. fort-night. Edith C. Mollan, 15 years old, of 1010 Moyamenslng avenue, succumbed to exhaustion after she had Jumped for almost al-most ten minutes without cessation. Her heart waa weak, and she died in a tew hours. |